Personality, smoking, and alcohol as synergistic risk factors for cancer of the mouth and pharynx.
34 male patients suffering from cancer of the mouth or pharynx were studied with reference to their personality type, smoking and drinking habits, and compared with a healthy sample of 1706 men. The three risk factors showed a strong tendency to be related to cancer only in combination, adding new evidence to the theory that risk factors in cancer act in a synergistic fashion.
Grossarth-Maticek
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Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, England.
Eysenck
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D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology; D000431:Ethanol / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology
D000431:Ethanol